Dementia
Subtitle: presentations, differential diagnosis, and nosology
By: edited by V. Olga B. Emery and Thomas E. Oxman.
Contributors: Emery, V. Olga B.; Oxman, Thomas E.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
Subjects: Dementia.; Dementia -- diagnosis.; Dementia -- classification.
Description: Discusses the spectrum of dementing disorders and explains their overlap, presentations, and differential diagnosis. The chapters present original data as well as material from the authors' clinical experiences. Current classification systems are evaluated and modified to better account for common presentations of dementia. Includes new material on neuroimaging, genetics, the role of inflammation in Alzheimer disease, retrophylogenesis in Alzheimer memory, and AIDS dementia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Boundaries between normal aging and dementia : perspectives from neuropsychological and neuroimaging investigations / Laura A. Flashman, Heather A. Wishart, Thomas E. Oxman, and Andrew J. Saykin; title: The spectrum of dementias : construct and nosologic validity / Thomas E. Oxman; title: Diagnostic procedures for dementia / Christopher J. Patterson and A. Marc Clarfield; title: The neuropathology of Alzheimer dementia / Jerzy Wegiel, Thomas Wisniewski, Barry Reisberg, and Wayne Silverman; title: Neural inflammatory mechanisms in Alzheimer syndrome / Edith G. McGeer and Patrick L. McGeer; title: Clinical subgroups of Alzheimer disease / Magnus Sjögren, A. Wallin, and Kaj Blennow; title: Progressive aphasia, frontotemporal dementia, and other "focal dementias," / Howard S. Kirshner; title: The memory deficit of dementia of the Alzheimer type : toward a new memory framework / V. Olga B. Emery; title: Cortical and frontosubcortical dementias : differential diagnosis / Fredric Assal and Jeffrey L. Cummings; title: Noninfarct vascular dementia : the spectrum of vascular dementia and Alzheimer syndrome / V. Olga B. Emery, Edward X. Gillie, and Joseph A. Smith; title: The relationship of hypertension to vascular dementia / Shotai Kobayashi; title: Vascular dementias and Alzheimer disease : differential diagnosis / Tuula Pirttil, Timo Erkinjuntti, and Vladimir Hachinski; title: Aids dementia complex / Richard W. Price; title: Depressive dementia : a "prepermanent intermediate-stage dementia" in a long-term disease course of permanent dementia? / V. Olga B. Emery and Thomas E. Oxman; title: Depressive dementia : cognitive and biological correlates and course of illness / George S. Alexopoulos; title: The nondepressive pseudodementias / Perminder Sachdev and Sharon Reutens; title: Neurobiology of major depression in Alzheimer disease / George S. Zubenko; title: Approaches to the treatment of dementing illness / Thomas E. Oxman and Robert B. Santulli; title: The spectra of the dementias / V. Olga B. Emery and Thomas E. Oxman.